Wuhan Ride-Hailing Driver Breaks Down! Life in China Is Too Hard, Did Wuchang Delivery Workers Launch a Collective Xianzhong Attack? Who Caused the Bottom-Level Mutual Harm, Chinese People Must Awaken

This episode discusses the incident in Wuhan where a ride-hailing driver was trapped and pranked, as well as the explosion at a community residential area in Wuchang. The host points out that amidst an economic downturn and a high-pressure environment, some citizens vent their life pressures, resulting in bottom-level mutual harm. At the same time, the host criticizes the authorities for adopting double standards and a one-size-fits-all approach to controlling Halloween costumes versus actual major public security accidents, and urges that citizens' freedoms must not be stripped away under this pretext.

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Over these past three days, two massive events have happened consecutively in Wuhan, China. Just looking at the footage gives me a very surreal feeling. We all know that Halloween on October 31st has already passed, and on that street in Wuhan, young people out celebrating were not even wearing any special costumes. Yet, a 58-year-old uncle got trapped inside his diversified taxi, commonly known as a ride-hailing vehicle. The roof of his car was piled high with drinks, trash, and plastic bottles, and someone even let the air out of his tires right in front of the driver. Two days later, late at night on November 2nd, an incident occurred at another community residential area in Wuhan, but the police (Public Security) currently report only one person injured. Unexpectedly, a narrative immediately spread online, with some suspecting this was a deliberate act of revenge. Putting these two incidents together, both happening in Wuhan, made me very curious: what on earth is happening in China right now? Is this so-called bottom-level mutual harm? Or is it really as Little Pinks say, that Chinese people deserve the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because democracy leads to chaos? What I found even more ironic is: hasn't the CCP been afraid for the past few years that safety issues would arise during Halloween?

First, let's talk about Halloween on October 31st. The Jianghan Road commercial district in Wuhan was extremely lively, and a large number of young people came out to celebrate the holiday without even wearing costumes. At around 5 p.m. or so, a 58-year-old ride-hailing driver surnamed Gao drove his car to an intersection in this commercial area. Unexpectedly, the crowd was so massive that it spilled out onto the roadway. The car was completely blocked and surrounded by the sea of people. To everyone's surprise, when this group of young people saw the car trapped in the middle of the road, they actually started targeting it. Not only did people throw garbage, unfinished milk tea, and even unfinished beverages onto the driver's car and roof, but some also drew talismans, wrote words, and doodled on his rearview mirrors and glass, even writing vulgar insults like "fucking idiot" (SB). Did you treat this car as a garbage truck? What's even more outrageous is that the driver did get out of the car to tell these young people to stop, but they responded with sneering and mocking attitudes, refusing to reason with him. Their attitude was: "So what if I mess with your mind? You get triggered just by me touching you, do you get this mindset? So what? What's the big deal about throwing some garbage?" They had no intention of discussing facts at all. Then, some people on the scene slapped his rearview mirrors, and what's even more outrageous is that someone squatted down specifically to find the air valve of his rear right tire and let the air out on the spot. Although you are restricted by the CCP from cosplaying for Halloween in many cities, especially in Shanghai, unless you are in specific areas like Shanghai Disneyland or Happy Valley, you didn't even need to dress up—your behavior alone makes you ghosts. And what was even wilder? People on the scene were filming videos, and when these young people saw the cameras, instead of feeling any shame, they became even more outrageous, thinking, "This is my chance to stand out and become famous!" Did anyone think to rein it in just because they were being filmed? Then came the twist: the Little Pink who let the air out of the tire was extensively human-fleshed searched (doxxed) and canceled by Chinese netizens. What made people feel even more chilled? Netizens filmed the driver lying helplessly over his steering wheel, trapped just like that. But just looking at a scene like this, we can tell how helpless and awkward his situation was at the time. One can only say that in an era of economic downturn, declining spending power, and deflation, when everyone comes out just to get some fresh air while cutting back on spending, this older man actually managed to hold back and didn't pull a Zhuhai-style Xianzhong attack running over hundreds of people like in previous years. You guys really should secretly rejoice and thank Amitabha. However, when I later saw reports inside the Great Firewall, I discovered another even more heartbreaking detail.

On November 2, Bloomberg News interviewed the head of this diversified taxi-hailing platform, and the interviewee revealed that this 58-year-old driver was driving a rented car. Nearing 60 years old, he still had to drive a rented car out to take orders and make money; his financial situation was definitely not very good. While a group of you young people were out partying, he was out working. You could play until the middle of the night and sleep in the next day, right? If anything happened to his car, he had to support his family and figure out how to deal with it, not to mention the time trapped on this road, time he could have used to take orders and earn money. Let's assume today that the car this driver was driving wasn't an ordinary car, but a Lamborghini Aventador, a Huracán, a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon, a BMW 7 Series, or even an Audi model favored by officials of the Chinese Communist Party or a government vehicle—would these people, these Little Pinks, still dare to pull this stunt? Why is it that when they encounter powerful and influential people, they act like they've seen a ghost, just like in short videos on Douyin: "Oh, official master, upright magistrate, I was wrong, your humble servant was blind and failed to recognize Mount Tai, I couldn't have imagined you were a CEO or chairman, I was wrong." If that older gentleman had been in the wrong first, that would be a different story, but the problem is this older gentleman did nothing wrong. He hadn't blocked the street, nor had he driven onto the sidewalk; instead, it was you pedestrians who were illegally and en masse walking in the middle of the road, which was a vehicular lane. But right here, I saw a problem: why is it that when people suddenly mingle in a large crowd, someone dares to do this? It's very simple: some people see others doing it first, and they follow along. The first person puts bubble tea on the car, the second person sees it and thinks it's fun, so they put garbage on it too, and the third person goes and hits the rearview mirror. Everyone thinks it's so cool, so youthful, so awesome, so brave—you low-class, shameless beggar, right? Well, I'm just doing it a little bit, and I'm not the only one doing it. When a group of people do it together, there is a concept in psychology called diffusion of responsibility. That is, the more people there are, the more some individuals feel they don't have to take personal responsibility. Even if responsibility is assigned, I'm only 1% of it. So this evil is diffused. When this evil is diffused, especially within the system, everyone just feels, "I'm just doing my job, I'm just having fun, everyone else is doing it too."

However, folks, here is what I think is the most absurd part, because we all know how extremely nervous the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been in recent years about people dressing up for Halloween on the streets. Especially starting in 2023, young people in Shanghai were very creative; some dressed up as the big white hazmat suits, some played 404 error pages, some dressed as Lu Xun, and some directly turned contemporary social news and economic issues into cosplay. Normally, if you make sarcastic remarks about the CCP on Douyin or Weibo, your posts get deleted immediately, and you might even get taken away for a tea session with the police. But when you directly dress up as a 404 error on the street, passersby know instantly what you want to express because they themselves have witnessed it and are living right through it. You don't even need to speak; a single outfit can make a group of people feel that we are living in the most absurd era. Fast forward to the Halloween season of 2024, commercial areas in places like Shanghai and Suzhou strengthened their security management, interrogating people in costume and taking them away to remove their makeup. Even Ultraman, Ultraman powerhouses, the Avengers, Batman, Jesus, and the Tathagata Buddha were taken away by the police. Just look at how great the Communist Party is! Now, this raises an interesting question: is Ultraman really coming to disrupt social security, or is the CCP genuinely terrified of young people using characters to satirize reality? This is also what I consider the absolute core of today's episode. On that same October 31st, many young people in Wuhan didn't even do any cosplay, right? They didn't dress up as big white suits, 404 error accounts, or play Sister Hong, right? Instead, they gathered together on the road to surround a 58-year-old driver, and even let the air out of his tires. So I want to ask: doesn't the CCP worry the most about social security incidents happening during Halloween? Aren't they very worried that crowds gathering will cause chaos or stampedes? Then why, when chaos actually broke out in Wuhan this time, where were the police? Police? Did the police come? The chengguan? Where were the chengguan? Right? You actually failed to guide and disperse the crowd in a timely manner, letting them cross and walk right across the road like that. Why was this driver trapped inside his car for three or four hours, left at the mercy of a group of young people getting handsy with him? Look at how in Shanghai, Suzhou, and other places, as long as someone wore a Halloween cosplay costume, they were very likely to be interrogated by the police, or ordered to remove their makeup and get into a police car to be taken away. But over in Wuhan, when an older uncle was truly being bullied, everyone could only watch videos of him being bullied online, feeling helpless inside his car. Don't you think that if the main priority is supposed to be maintaining public safety, when young people in Shanghai stand on the pedestrian sidewalk wearing anime costumes, you take them away, whereas in Wuhan a real group of young people lets the air out of someone's car to treat it like a garbage truck and even smashes his rearview mirror—which one deserves priority handling? Yet this incident was not dealt with in a timely manner on the spot; instead, police rushed to Shanghai, Suzhou, and other areas to take people in costume away. So just think about how those Little Pinks who normally oppose Halloween would spin this Wuhan incident. They would definitely say, “Look! We told you so long ago, Halloween is a holiday of foreign hostile forces, and Chinese people are not allowed to celebrate foreign holidays. Celebrating foreign holidays makes people uncultured, right? These young people just lack culture. If you celebrated holidays of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, this wouldn’t happen. When a group of people gather together, they easily lose control, so our government should completely ban foreign holidays. Halloween and Christmas are strictly prohibited, and the police should conduct thorough interrogations. When I go outside and see 60 police cars, I feel so happy and safe.” Isn't that right? So have you noticed? This logic is extremely strange. The ones who genuinely did something wrong were that group of people harassing the driver, yet in the end, it turns into all Chinese youth—maybe 500 or 800 million of them—having to face these restrictions. Today, a dozen people do something wrong, and instead of targeting those specific individuals, you implement a one-size-fits-all restriction on people who did nothing wrong. Is this really solving a problem, or is it just making things even more absurd? Anyone could litter, squeeze through crowds on the street, or jaywalk during the May Day holiday or the CCP regime's October 1st National Day holiday, so are you going to stop everyone from taking holidays and lock everyone up at home, just like during the pandemic lockdowns? People can just self-quarantine because they feel the streets will become chaotic and full of litter—don't you just love these one-size-fits-all policies? Moreover, China's own media is criticizing this incident, arguing that Halloween revelry cannot be made an excuse to hurt others. Let me ask you, was there any Halloween atmosphere at the scene at all? Have you ever seen how foreign countries celebrate it? Absolutely not.

Right, so moving on, the next story also happened in Wuhan, and it is even more explosive and horrifying. Around 11:50 PM on November 2, close to midnight, there was no Wuchang Uprising in Wuchang, Wuhan, but rather a community bang incident. We can see from the footage that it was extremely terrifying, but to avoid issues with red flags, I won't post it here—flames were shooting everywhere. The next day, on November 3, the local Public Security Bureau in Wuhan issued a notice confirming two deaths and one injury. Originally, seeing this, people might have thought it was just a routine gas accident or something similar, and that we should just wait for the police investigation. But unexpectedly, rumors circulated online that this explosion might not have been an accident; instead, someone used a food delivery platform to lure a group of delivery workers into a room, and then a Xianzhong fireworks festival commenced. In the footage, there is a screenshot of a suspected errand delivery chat where the other party says that a leader temporarily requested a dozen people to rush a scene and take a photo for an event, and that once everyone arrives, they just need to shoot for a minute or two. Now, think about it, does this reason sound very simple and normal? Today, if you are a delivery worker and you pick up an order like this, and the customer says you just need to take pictures for a few minutes, you would think this gig is very easy. But the content of another screenshot comment is even more horrifying. Someone claiming to be a survivor of the escape said that at the time, someone placed an order asking them to deliver to the 29th floor of a certain building. It was originally said that safety training required taking a photo to make up a headcount, but once everyone arrived, they were unexpectedly locked inside the room. Not long after taking pictures, everyone realized something was wrong, quickly kicked the door open, and ran away. According to them, as they ran from the 29th floor down to the 27th floor, they heard a loud bang, and everyone was scared out of their wits running downstairs. But if these whistleblowing reports are true—hypothetically speaking—then this incident is truly no longer ordinary. If it is a Xianzhong attack, will the CCP admit to it, and how long will they drag it out before saying anything? These ordinary people just wanted to make an honest living, yet under such an environment, they still ended up becoming targets of harm. Of course, we cannot just believe whatever the CCP police notice says, after all, it is a black-box totalitarian state. Because such a serious accident happened in society, the public actually has the right to know the complete investigation, or even have a third-party organization inspect it. But unfortunately, what Xi Jinping demands is that everyone obey the leadership of the CCP Central Committee. As for how the explosion actually happened? On which floor? What was the reason? The identities and relationships of the deceased? And so on and so forth—they will definitely drag it out for a very long time before telling you. Are there surveillance cameras? Everyone knows about the Yu Menglong incident; were there surveillance camera footage, right? But think carefully, since when has it been that whenever a major public security incident occurs in China, many people's first reaction is that this is someone deliberately taking revenge on society, a Xianzhong attack? Of course, under economic downturn and deflation, besides binge-watching short dramas, sketchy videos, and Red Fruit or Yellow Fruit apps, many people have nowhere to vent. When a society lacks complete and rapid verification for such information, fear on the internet easily turns into various versions of stories. The CCP has always emphasized social stability, public security management, and even maintained high alert against Halloween costumes, but if the public truly encounters major accidents and cannot quickly obtain sufficient information, then no matter how strict the controls are,

We can finally answer the question at the beginning today: Are these two incidents in Wuhan today really bottom-feeder mutual harm? The most terrifying thing is when someone bears pressure in their own life, yet takes it out on someone else who has no ability to resist or shouldn't have to bear that pressure. For example, if your boss chews you out at company today—whether the boss was wrong or you were—you go home and vent on your family, or take it out on your family's cats and dogs. Or if your workday doesn't go smoothly and you see someone outside who is supposedly lower-class than you, or whose salary is obviously inferior to yours, such as a restaurant waiter or someone similar who is a bit slow, you curse them out mercilessly without leaving any room for grace. Matters that could have been communicated nicely are instead handled by choosing the most extreme and aggressive way to act first, right? You feel life treats you unfairly, yet instead of figuring out how to fix that unfairness, you hope others will suffer the same unfairness and misfortune as you. Once your heart feels comfortable and relieved, in the end everyone suffers, and no one's life gets better because of it. Because making your own life better requires enduring immense pressure and paying a huge price, but making others live just as miserably as you is extremely easy. Life pressure is not a get-out-of-jail-free card to harm others, nor is it your iron-clad shield. No matter how poor or tired you are, you have no right to let the air out of someone else's tires. Because in this same world, many people without privileged family backgrounds are working just as hard and living just as bitterly, yet they are still willing to treat strangers with kindness. But on the other hand, governments of various countries cannot use the inferior behavior of a few as an excuse to further restrict everyone's freedom. Therefore, I disagree with the Little Pinks who claim that all Chinese people only deserve to be managed by the Chinese Communist Party. After incidents like the one in Wuhan broke out, a large number of Chinese netizens also spoke up for the driver, demanded accountability, and even wanted to donate money to help him. Are these people not Chinese too? So why should we deny everyone the respect and guarantees of freedom they deserve just because some people bullied the driver? If so-called management means that during Halloween or Christmas, ordinary people have to worry about being interrogated and having their makeup removed if they wear any costume outside of designated zones, while ordinary people harassed on the streets are not necessarily protected in a timely manner, then what on earth is this kind of management maintaining? Who is it protecting? 2442? Today's video ends here. If you like it, remember to subscribe to me; if you don't like it, make sure to block me. I am Bajiong, see you next time, bye.